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Injuries to US troops in Afghanistan have risen alarmingly in the last 3 months, as a Taliban offensive deploys deadlier roadside bombs aimed at American and other foreign forces. The rate of injury has surpassed that in Iraq during the heaviest fighting of the surge 2 years ago, the Washington Post reports. "It shows you how we are the targets and how effectively they are targeting us," says a Pentagon spokesman.

The IEDs being used by the Taliban are powerful enough to destroy even the Pentagon's most mine-resistant vehicles, prompting Defense Secretary Robert Gates to order thousands more support troops to Afghanistan to hunt and destroy roadside bombs. More than 1,000 troops have been injured in the last 3 months—a quarter of all the injuries sustained since the US-led invasion in 2001.

@foodchain11: unfortunately the only way to win in war it either to not get in it in the first place (most desirable by far) or to engage in total war, and destroy and kill everything/one on the enemy side. Just my opinion, but Genghis Kahn's tactics were so brutal, he often didn't have to fight as towns would simply surrender and comply.

foodchain11

Oct 31, 2009 11:25 AM CDT

This is just the dumbest argument in the world---oops--the USA, because everyone else in the world understands war better than we do. We have failed at every war afrter WWII and gues why? WE don't know what the F---- we're doing!!!! Ike did, the others do not!!!! Big bunch of stupid white men thinking they can shoot anything and win. Dumbest people ever. Watch an old sci-fi. Out we come with our guns----dhu then, duh now